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B. STROUSE. SAFETY POCKET.

No. 358,823. Patented Mar. 1, 1887.

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ELI STROUSE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SAFETY-POCK ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 358,823, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed January 25, 1887. Serial No. 225,463.

more, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Invisible and Safety Pockets for Vests, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a vest or waistcoat with an invisible and safety pocket in which money or other small valuablcs may be carried with great safety and securit-y, since the valuables cannot be removed without the knowledge of the wearer of the garment.

The pocket is formed in the back of tlte vest and located in the lower right or left corner, or one may be placed in both corners, if preferred. It is concealed and securely closed by the buckle or back-strap of the vest, which extends across the mouth of the pocket and forms the front side of the mouth, as hereinalter fully described.

In accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the vest applied to a man. Fig. 2 is a view of a portion of the back and front of the vest, enlarged. F g. 3 is a vertical section on line 1 2 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4. shows a modification.

The back A of the vest presents exteriorly and interiorly the ordinary appearance, so that no one would suspect from visual inspection that it contains a pocket of any description.

In Fig. 2the pocket a is shown located in the lower right-hand corner-that is to say,in the lower portion of the back A and adjacent to the side of the front B.

The pocket is made like those ordinarily inserted in the fronts of vests, and its upper side edges are sewed to the edgesof a horizontal slit or opening formed in the back A,directly behind the back-strap C. To describe the arrangement more particularly,[ will state that the aforesaid slit or opening is directly opposite the lengthwise middle portion of the back-strap O, and the front upper edge of the pocket is sewed to it at that point, as shown by line a." as, Fig. 2. Thus the upper half of the back-strap, or the portion of it lyingabove (No model.)

the said line .90 03, forms the front side of the mouth of the pocket. In other words, the backstrap not only forms part of the mouth of the pocket at, but conceals it so that from appearance of the vest one would not suspect the existence of the pocket at all. Furthermore, the latter is so located as to be conveniently accessible, if on the right side for the right hand, and, if on the left for the left hand. In some cases a vest will be provided with a safety-pocket on both sides of the back A, as previously intimated. It will be perceived that this location is in itself a protection, especially when a. coat is worn, and when the back-strap O is buckled somewhat tightly it prevents abstraction of anything from the pocket, since the attention of the wearer of the vest would be at once invited by the physical sensation of local touch or pressure.

As a further means of securing the mouth of the pocket a button, D,*Fig. 4, may be sewed to the inner side of the pocket just below the edge of its mouth, and a button-hole is formed at an opposite pointin the back side of the pocket. Neither button nor button-hole is visible exteriorly.

\Vhat I claim is l. A vest provided with an invisible and safety pocket located in the lower outside portion of the back thereof and having its tnouth or entrance behind the hack-strap,substantially as shown and described.

2. A vest provided with an invisible and safety pocket, which is located in the lower corner thereof, and the outer side of whose mouth is formed by the backstrap, as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the vest-hack A, of a pocket formed in the lower corner thereof, and the back-strap, which extends across the mouth of the pocket and forms the front upper edge of the mouth, thereby concealing it, as specified.

ELI STROUSE.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL S. Boeos, SAMUEL ROSENTHAL. 

